Oratti- The Wonder Breakfast For Your Special Mornings

Oratti is a very common breakfast delicacy made once in a while at homes of Kerala. The real reason why most people choose not to make Oratti on a daily basis is because they think it is time consuming. If you have more members at home, it would be preferable to make Oratti on a holiday when you get a whole lot of free time for making special delicacies.

Oratti can be called as Kerala’s kind of chapatti. Right from my childhood, I think Orattis have been my all time favorite breakfast delicacy. Even to this day I make it a point to make Orattis more frequently. But as time does not allow during busy working day mornings, I postpone them to Saturdays when I get at least some time to breath in the kitchen. ;)

I like orattis being thin and soft. It is not necessary that they need to be as thin as a chapatti. But I make sure that they are thin and soft, taking care not to burn it or add too much of salt that can spoil its taste. You can make a delicious vegetable curry to accompany with your orattis, or you can dip them in the mutton curry as I have done in the photograph.

Checkout the recipe for Oratti that is given below, and make your Saturdays special!! Or try making them for a special dinner with your husband. He will really love it a lot ;) (Romantic eh?)

Ingredients

·         Rice Flour – 3 cups (Serves 2)

·         Coconut gratings- ½ cup

·         Hot Water –

·         Salt – Not too much ;)

Method

·         Boil water in a vessel

·         Simmer the stove when the water has started boiling

·         In another vessel, put three cups of rice flour

·         Add small quantity of salt to the rice flour. You can add ¼ tsp of salt to 3 cups of rice flour.

·         Mix the salt to the rice flour well

·         Add the grated coconuts to the rice flour and mix well with a wooden spatula

·         Pour the hot water (boiling water to the rice flour)

·         With the help of the wooden spatula, mix the rice flour well.

·         Add water if you find the flour dry

·         Mix the flour well and close it with a lid for 10 min

·         After 10 min, open the lid and mix the dough well

·         Now you can use your hands to mix the dough well

·         Make large balls out of the dough

·         Take a flat plate

·         Take a cotton cloth and wet it

·         Oil your hands

·         Spread the damp cotton cloth on the plate

·         Take a ball and flatten it on the cloth placed on the plate with the help of your fingers

·         Flatten the dough well to form a round shape

·         Heat a tava or flat pan

·         Take out the cloth with the Oratti dough that is flattened carefully with both hands

·         Carefully place the flattened dough on the tava and take off the cloth

·         Cover the Oratti on the tava with a lid for 2 min

·         After 2 min, open the lid and turn the Oratti and close the lid

·         Cook for yet another 2 min

·         Check whether the Oratti is cooked, if not, then continue to cook for 2 min by turning it once more

·         Serve hot with vegetable curry, mutton curry, beef curry or chicken curry and ENJOY!!